Once Upon a sketch challenge!

Hi everyone! Yippee! It's live! Yup, our Dec. 1st challenge at OUAS is up! For this challenge, you simply use the wonderful sketch, by Nadia, the awesome creator and owner of our site, and follow the journaling criteria.

The journaling criteria is: The thing I look most forward to in December.

Write at least 2 sentences on what you look forward to in the next month. December is a festive month so your journalling could be about the Christmas season, the holidays, the presents or if you do not celebrate Christmas what does December bring for you that you look most forward to? Note: Your layout DOES NOT have to be about Christmas! It can be about anything December brings.

Other ideas for journalling: an annual holiday or celebration, a specific event such as putting up the Christmas tree or pre Christmas traditions you might have leading up to Christmas, family time, snow covered fields or warmer weather, time off work, school holidays, change of weather, new season fruit.

I just absolutely love this time of year....just think of all the wonderful things that you could do with this challenge!

The sketch

Our wonderful Sponsor and prizes:

Handmade by Suzanne

Handmade By Suzanne is a Perth, Western Australia based Scrapbooking and Craft online retailer. Stocking an extensive range of the latest beautiful and exciting released scrapbooking and craft products.

With over 3,500 products online and growing there isn’t much in scrapbooking and craft that they don’t sell! Their brands include – Kaisercraft, Bo Bunny, Webster’s Pages, Prima, Hambly Screen Prints, Dusty Attic, October Afternoon, Martha Stewart, Crate Paper, Cheery Lynn, Sizzix - just to name a fraction!

And what better timing to have Handmade By Suzanne sponsor us than the month of December, which is their BIRTHDAY SALE month! Birthday Sale Starts Now! 20% Off Storewide

Handmade By Suzanne is 2 years old in December and to celebrate they are having a month long sale – there is 20% off all items storewide with the exception of the very latest arrivals the previous week

The winner of this challenge, as chosen by the Design Team, will win a spot on our Design Team for the month of January. As well as that, the winner will also receive a AUD$20.00 voucher (plus FREE shipping) to spend in the store at Handmade By Suzanne!

At Once Upon A...Sketch we LOVE to encourage EVERYONE to participate, even those that are fairly new to scrapbooking so this is why we like to offer some prizes for RANDOMLY chosen winner so that everyone feels like they have a chance to win!

One lucky person will receive this Tim Holz alterations embossing folder set prize from Handmade By Suzanne:

Another lucky person will win this set of My Minds Eye 6x6 paper pads in four different collections

Aren't these prizes just awesome!!!!

I can't wait to see your creations...let the fun begin!

As always, thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

A big thank you to all of you!

Hi everyone! I wanted to thank you for all the prayers, comments, and thoughts for my recovery while I was in the hospital. I am back home now and will need some time to recover from surgery so I will not be entering in any new challenges at this time. I do however, have a lot of lo's/projects that I will be able to share with you until I'm back on my feet in full force again. Please forgive me for the lack of comments to your blogs over the next few weeks....I promise I will be visiting again soon. Can't wait to see your beautiful creations. In the mean time, please join me as I share awesome challenges over the next month with you.

At this time, I'd like to share two lo's that I did with the gorgeous Pixie Dust Paperie Pink Rose Cottage kit.

Don't ya just love the gorgeous papers and embellies........

Please head on over to our Pixie blog for a 20% Cyber Monday sale...yeah!

And right now we are having our Nov. challenge where you can have a chance to win a $15.00 gift certificate. Simply make something using this photo in anyway that it inspires you...how easy is that!

As always, thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Time Off

Hi everyone - I am John, Sandi's husband. Sandi wanted me to let you know she will not be able to look at blogs or comment on your wonderful work. Unfortunately, she has undergone emergency surgery. Sandi will be in the hospital all this week. We hope she is home by Monday Nov 28. The recovery period is very lengthy, likely 6-8 weeks. Sandi will be able to leave comments as she recovers closer to the eight weeks. Thank you for your understanding. Let's pray for a quick recovery so Sandi can get back to her normal self.

Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge!

Hi everyone!  We've got another wonderful challenge for you at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge. This time, it's a sketch by Anne, the lovely creator and owner, of AFSC and a book criteria. Yeah! I love to read....it takes you on an adventure, where the present moment is spent somewhere else. So here's your moment to Scrap your favourite book – you can use a scan of the cover, a picture that represents the book’s theme, you can journal why it is a favourite of yours. You have until the 30th of the month to play along!!!

the sketch



Our prize to play for this month is a $25.00 gift certificate from Scrapbooking.com!!

I can't wait to see what you come up with!

For more inspiration, plaese stop by here to see what the other DT gals and guest have created!

As always, thank you for stopping by, and have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Once Upon A Sketch challenge!

Hi everyone! Yippee! It's up...the new challenge for Once Upon a sketch is live! This  month you follow this awesome sketch by Nadia, the super sweet creator and owner of OUAS, and combine it with the fun journaling criteria...of focusing on YOU! Yes,  focus on YOU as a woman OR ANY female in your life. What is the best thing about being a woman? Motherhood? Shopping? Make Up? Girls nights? Gossip? Your journalling can be as long as you wish and in any language, but you must journal at least 2 sentences on the best part of being a woman. How exciting...just think of what you can come up with for this challenge....yeah!

The sketch:



The sponsors and prizes

 

 

Imaginarium designs  is an amazing Australian chipboard company which creates awesome chipboard for all your chippee needs. This month, they are giving away this gorgeous chipboard collection to 1 randomly chosen winner.

 

 

 

Our Guest Designer, Leeann Pearce,  has a GORGEOUS etsy shop filled with her amazing and very UNIQUE handmade creations called  The Chip Chop Shop which is giving away a stunning collection of goodies to the value of $25.00 to one randomly chosen winner.



the winner of this challenge, as chosen by the Design Team, will receive this embellishment collection from BasicGrey's Jovial line. Just in time for Christmas...

For lots of inspiration, please stop by to see what the DT and guests have created!

As always, thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Pixie ~ Us lo!

Hi everyone! Today I'd like to show you a lo of my dd's that I did with the Pixie dust paperie Pink Rose Cottage kit. I've got to say that this kit is one of my favorite's. There are so many easy to work with papers and embellies in it that the only difficult thing about it is deciding what pic you won't be able to use on any given paper...honestly, I had so many ideas that I could use for each one! I just love that...no waste!!! For this lo I used almost all embellies...so easy, fun, and quick!

Yup! Even that pretty spread of flowers to the rt. of the pic is a sticker...no fussy cutting...yeah!!!

For daily inspiration, you'll want to stop by the Pixie blog, to see what the other talented DT girls and guest designer have created!

             And don't forget to enter the wonderful giveaway. This month there will be 4 winners!

                   As always, thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Lessology Jars of cuteness challenge!

Hi everyone! Today I'd like to share a jar that I made for the Lessology jars of cuteness jar challenge. My husband and my wedding aniversary is coming up in a few days so I thought it would be sweet to make this jar of us, at our wedding, to give to him. It's hard to see because of the glass glare, but there is a picture of us in the jar at the wedding table where the photographer caught a pic of me telling him that "I love him".  For my recyled item, I  attached our pic to a wire and then stuck it into a wine cork, from a bottle of wine, that we recently had. I used a Classico Alfredo jar because it has an embossed finish on it that I thought would really add character to this project.



Close-ups

I painted the cover, then wrapped it and put some embellies on it.

Our pic

the original jar

To see the awesome jars of cuteness that the DT and guest have done you can go here.

As always, thank you for stopping by, have a wonderful day!

Hugs!